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The BBC has apologised after it misquoted a Reuters report and incorrectly accused the IDF of targeting medical personnel and Arabic speakers pic.twitter.com/kbnC8irxeb

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from the BBC!!!

'World's oldest Torah' scroll found at Italy university

  -- BBC

"found" is a funny word to use, considering the Torah scroll was there all along. They say "found" because, despite, it being in their archives for so long they did not realize how old it was until now. They say it had been mislabled, and they had thought it was just a few hundred years old..

In the words of the BBC:

The University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah.
The scroll was in the university library but had been mislabelled, a professor at the university says.
It was previously thought the scroll was no more that a few hundred years old.
However, after carbon dating tests, the university has said the text may have been written more than 850 years ago.
The university's Professor of Hebrew Mauro Perani says this would make it the oldest complete text of the Torah known to exist, and an object of extraordinary worth.
The university says that in 1889 one of its librarians, Leonello Modona, had examined the scroll and dated it to the 17th Century.
However, when Mr Perani recently re-examined the scroll, he realised the script used was that of the oriental Babylonian tradition, meaning that the scroll must be extremely old.
Another reason for the dating is that the text has many features forbidden in later copies under rules laid down by the scholar Maimonides in the 12th Century, the university says.

BBC is running a program videoing the development of a fetus inside the womb. It is pretty cool and funky. This video is about how the face is formed during the stages of the fetus, and how the philtrum is created.
The philtrum is the midline groove in the upper lip that runs from the top of the lip to the nose.

Face Development in the Womb - Inside the Human Body: Creation - BBC One


The BBC is obviously arguing with the Chaza"l that say the philtrum is created by the angel tapping the fetus on the lip to cause him to forget the Torah learning he learned in the womb prior to birth.

This is a fascinating video of a BBC reporter, Louis Theroux, who spent time in the West Bank talking to different people and watching different incidents. Below the video I am copying the text from the description on Youtube...



Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible.

Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement - finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers and discovers a small, but very committed subculture.

On a hilltop in the Northern West Bank, not far from the large Palestinian city of Nablus, I met 17-year-old Yair Lieberman.

A part-time labourer and student, Yair's home was a makeshift canvas-covered structure, only slightly more solid than a tent, which he shared with three other young men. The bed was a tangled mess of sheets, in the style of a conventional teenager's, and hung around the dwelling were posters - though not of pop groups, but of favourite rabbis. Outside, in the neighbouring lots, was a scattering of fifteen or so caravans and trailers - the outpost of Havat Gilad.

Like the settlements up and down the West Bank, Havat Gilad is illegal under international law. It lies miles inside the territory won by Israel in the 1967 war and the vast majority of the surrounding population is Palestinian. But Havat Gilad is also illegal under Israeli law. Electricity comes from a generator. Water is trucked in.

Yair moved up to Havat Gilad a couple of years ago. On a tour around the hilltop, I asked him why he'd decided to make his life in this ramshackle encampment, at the end of a dirt road, on an inhospitable hilltop among Arab olive groves.

"If we're not here there's a [Palestinian] city and we don't want another [Palestinian] city," he said.

What, I wondered, would be so bad about another Palestinian city?

"Because it's my land! It's the land of Israel. It's not the land of Palestinians."

Yair's beliefs are shared by a hardcore religious nationalist fringe of Jewish Israelis who have chosen to make their home up and down the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. They say that those areas belong by right to the Jewish people - a title claim based mainly on the bible.

The fact that there are nearly ten times as many Arabs as there are Jews in the West Bank, with their own dreams of a national homeland, they regard as a side-issue.

I was making a documentary about these ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, called The Ultra-Zionists. For several weeks I'd been spending time in some of the most hardcore and uncompromising sections of the Israeli nationalist community - the Jewish enclave in Hebron, in the hilltops in the north of the West Bank, and in the crowded Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem - choosing to come at a time when peace talks were ongoing and the extreme settlers were therefore more embattled.

For many years I'd been fascinated by extreme nationalists - and I'd hoped the issue of the West Bank and its settlement by extreme religious Jews would be a chance to understand this mindset at first hand.

This is a funny skit by Eretz Nehederet, a satirical show styled after SNL, making fun of the BBC style of reporting on the war...



(HatTip: Pesky Settler)

The BBC conducted a poll to determine how people around the world view different countries and their level and type of influence. The US has seen some improvement in the way people perceive their level of influence.

The BBC found though that Israel is viewed the second worst country in the world as to having a negative influence in the world. The only country placing worse than Israel was Iran.

Amazing that they could find Israel to be only slightly better than a country that is threatening other countries with nuclear warfare and decimation.

That's called keeping good company.

I have been invited to participate in a "roundtable discussion" on the BBC, which will begin in a few minutes. The topic is the resignation of Chief of Staff Dan Halutz.

The link they gave me is here but I do not see any place there to listen. Maybe when it goes live there will be a link on that page.. they also told me it would be archived for listening later.... The link is on the right side where it says Listen Live

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well that was pretty painless... I was asked what I thought about Halutz's resignation and then further asked about whether more heads will and should roll...